Front Neurosci
February 2025
Background: Cognitive dysfunction after traumatic brain injury (TBI) significantly reduces quality of life and imposes a heavy burden on society. A detailed examination of research trends of cognitive dysfunction following TBI has not yet been conducted. This study aimed to examine the bibliometric analysis of cognitive dysfunction after traumatic brain injury over the past 20 years.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Purpose: Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common bowel-brain interaction disorder whose pathogenesis is unclear. Many studies have investigated abnormal changes in brain function in IBS patients. In this study, we analyzed the dynamic changes in brain function in IBS patients using a Hidden Markov Model (HMM).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study investigates the influence of CYP3A4 gene polymorphisms on postoperative pain sensitivity and analgesic response in lung cancer patients undergoing intercostal nerve block with local anesthetics. Sixty patients (ages 31-74) undergoing thoracoscopic lung cancer surgery were enrolled and divided into two groups based on CYP3A4 gene expression level: Group I (high CYP3A4) and Group II (low CYP3A4). Postoperative pain was assessed using the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS), and patient-controlled intravenous analgesia (PCIA) pump usage, ECG ST-T segment changes, complications, hospital stay, and costs were recorded.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSignal Transduct Target Ther
October 2024
Acupuncture is an effective and safe alternative treatment to prevent and treat migraine, but its central analgesic mechanism remains poorly understood. It is believed that the dysfunction of the thalamocortical connectivity network is an important contributor to migraine pathophysiology. This study aimed to investigate the abnormal thalamocortical network dynamics in patients with migraine without aura (MWoA) before and after an 8-week electroacupuncture treatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPrep Biochem Biotechnol
March 2025
Given the escalating demand for renewable biofuels amidst the continual consumption of fossil energy, the exploration and identification of microalgal strains for biodiesel production have become crucial. In this study, a microalgal strain named HDMA-12 was isolated from Lake Chenjiadayuan in China to evaluate its biodiesel potential. Phylogenetic analysis of its internal transcribed spacer sequences revealed HDMA-12 as a new molecular record in the genus .
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSpatial omics technologies decipher functional components of complex organs at cellular and subcellular resolutions. We introduce Spatial Graph Fourier Transform (SpaGFT) and apply graph signal processing to a wide range of spatial omics profiling platforms to generate their interpretable representations. This representation supports spatially variable gene identification and improves gene expression imputation, outperforming existing tools in analyzing human and mouse spatial transcriptomics data.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFComput Med Imaging Graph
September 2024
Intracranial aneurysm (IA) is a prevalent disease that poses a significant threat to human health. The use of computed tomography angiography (CTA) as a diagnostic tool for IAs remains time-consuming and challenging. Deep neural networks (DNNs) have made significant advancements in the field of medical image segmentation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPain empathy enables us to understand and share how others feel pain. Few studies have investigated pain empathy-related functional interactions at the whole-brain level across all networks. Additionally, women with primary dysmenorrhea (PDM) have abnormal pain empathy, and the association among the whole-brain functional network, pain, and pain empathy remain unclear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNanomaterials (Basel)
May 2024
Micro-light-emitting diodes (μLEDs), with their advantages of high response speed, long lifespan, high brightness, and reliability, are widely regarded as the core of next-generation display technology. However, due to issues such as high manufacturing costs and low external quantum efficiency (EQE), μLEDs have not yet been truly commercialized. Additionally, the color conversion efficiency (CCE) of quantum dot (QD)-μLEDs is also a major obstacle to its practical application in the display industry.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPain empathy, defined as the ability of one person to understand another person's pain, shows large individual variations. The anterior insula is the core region of the pain empathy network. However, the relationship between white matter (WM) properties of the fiber tracts connecting the anterior insula with other cortical regions and an individual's ability to modulate pain empathy remains largely unclear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSpatial omics technologies are capable of deciphering detailed components of complex organs or tissue in cellular and subcellular resolution. A robust, interpretable, and unbiased representation method for spatial omics is necessary to illuminate novel investigations into biological functions, whereas a mathematical theory deficiency still exists. We present SpaGFT (Spatial Graph Fourier Transform), which provides a unique analytical feature representation of spatial omics data and elucidates molecular signatures linked to critical biological processes within tissues and cells.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSensors (Basel)
December 2023
The traditional UAV swarm assessment indicator lacks the whole process description of the performance change after the system is attacked. To meet the realistic demand of increasing resilience requirements for UAV swarm systems, in this paper, we study the modeling and resilience assessment methods of UAV swarm self-organized networks. First, based on complex network theory, a double layer coupled UAV swarm network model considering the communication layer and the structure layer is constructed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: This study sought to investigate the safety and clinical outcomes associated with the combined administration of dexmedetomidine (Dex) and remifentanil (Rem) in patients with coronary heart disease undergoing three-dimensional (3D) laparoscopic surgery, with concurrent monitoring of the electroencephalography (EEG) bispectral index.
Methods: This study is of a retrospective nature and involved a total of 60 patients with coronary heart disease who underwent 3D laparoscopic surgery at our hospital between June 2020 and September 2021. In a double-blind manner, these patients were randomly assigned to two groups: the control group (Group I), which consisted of 30 patients, and the treatment group (Group II) receiving a combination of Dex and Rem, also comprising 30 patients.
Pain empathy is a complex form of psychological inference that enables us to understand how others feel in the context of pain. Since pain empathy may be grounded in our own pain experiences, it exhibits huge inter-individual variability. However, the neural mechanisms behind the individual differences in pain empathy and its association with pain perception are still poorly understood.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Objectives: The objective of this study was to propose a clustering approach to identify migraine subgroups and test the clinical usefulness of the approach by providing prognostic information for electroacupuncture treatment selection.
Methods: Participants with migraine without aura (MWoA) were asked to complete a daily headache diary, self-rating depression and anxiety, and quality-of-life questionnaires. Whole-brain functional connectivities (FCs) were assessed on resting-state functional MRI (fMRI).
Background: Lymphovascular space invasion (LVSI) of endometrial cancer (EC) is a postoperative histological index, which is associated with lymph node metastases. A preoperative acknowledgement of LVSI status might aid in treatment decision-making.
Purpose: To explore the utility of multiparameter magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and radiomic features obtained from intratumoral and peritumoral regions for predicting LVSI in endometrioid adenocarcinoma (EEA).